That's a sure way to make sure that the domain name that you want has just been snapped up by someone else.
When you want to change your name, you first see what www.???.com isn't taken, and then use that. If you tell people your new name before you register your ???, then it won't be available any more.
Sad fact of life that the internet is full of arsehole squatters.
I made a car that could do this, and parked it in my garage. It was stolen. So were all my design documents. My computer was picked clean of all the relevant information, and written with random data. I woke up one morning to find a hole just behind my ear, and I had completely forgot about the car, the plans, how it all worked. All I found were what they'd put in it's place. Copies of playboy magazine around my floor, gigabytes of porn on my harddrive, and a memory of a really good party.
Those bastards will still be driving around in my car without having paid a cent for fuel. I was going to be rich!
It would seem to me that the arbiter of that decision should be the average man in the street. Although it such matters may seem obvious to the/. community, they is by no means obvious to the common man. Isn't that what really matters?
No! Of course not. The man on the street is a moron. I've met him. Lots of times.
If it has to be obvious to the man on the street, then I should be able to patent using two web browser windows at the same time to look at two different sites. The man on the street wouldn't know you could do this.
Or, I could patent looking at pornography on the internet. OK, so the man on the street would know you could do this.
Most patents are technical. You need a technical audience to evaluate them.
I wonder if anyone knows if anything like it is being done in Australia ? I've got a box or two at work we were just going to throw away.
Re:Like their Olympics coverage ?
on
Nobel Prizes
·
· Score: 1
I see your Minister for Reconcilliation has suddenly suffered from a case of "foot in mouth" disease then.
Not really. The media just likes making big deals out of very little. I'm surprised you heard about it. Although, with most ministers, it's best when something is in their mouth. Stops them saying anything else.
Of course, we must remember that Aborigines didn't have shoes to protect their feet and hence mouths, so are therefore inferior.
The fact that Australia has a "Reconcilliation Minister" at all is pretty embarrassing
Re:Like their Olympics coverage ?
on
Nobel Prizes
·
· Score: 1
Oh drat... thats exactly what I was going to say!
Ha! And to top it off, I'm an Australian, and hence I didn't have to suffer with that 12 hour delay anyway.
That must mean I'm going to get the Nobel information in real time too
Like their Olympics coverage ?
on
Nobel Prizes
·
· Score: 4
So does that mean it's going to be 12 hours late ?
No, I don't think NASA would do this. NASA is very careful about disturbing possible developing life. They are very careful to disinfect their probes lest microbes somehow survive the trip and colonize a far-away world. As impossible as it might sound, they are cautious about that. So I doubt NASA would send anything to a planet that might have the remote possibility of somehow containing developing life forms. Even if they just want to take a few shots.
The reason that they don't allow microbes on their probes is so that they don't get a false positive. It would be a pain if when they went looking for microbes on mars, they found some and they turned out to be not from mars at all, but brought with the craft from Earth.
Yes, NASA is careful about disinfecting, but only to help with the research. I don't think they're really that concerned about "contaminating" another planet with microbes.
Slashdot Mirror
That's a sure way to make sure that the domain name that you want has just been snapped up by someone else.
When you want to change your name, you first see what www.???.com isn't taken, and then use that. If you tell people your new name before you register your ???, then it won't be available any more.
Sad fact of life that the internet is full of arsehole squatters.
Yes, I can confirm it.
I made a car that could do this, and parked it in my garage. It was stolen. So were all my design documents. My computer was picked clean of all the relevant information, and written with random data. I woke up one morning to find a hole just behind my ear, and I had completely forgot about the car, the plans, how it all worked. All I found were what they'd put in it's place. Copies of playboy magazine around my floor, gigabytes of porn on my harddrive, and a memory of a really good party.
Those bastards will still be driving around in my car without having paid a cent for fuel. I was going to be rich!
It would seem to me that the arbiter of that decision should be the average man in the street. Although it such matters may seem obvious to the /. community, they is by no means obvious to the common man. Isn't that what really matters?
No! Of course not. The man on the street is a moron. I've met him. Lots of times.
If it has to be obvious to the man on the street, then I should be able to patent using two web browser windows at the same time to look at two different sites. The man on the street wouldn't know you could do this.
Or, I could patent looking at pornography on the internet. OK, so the man on the street would know you could do this.
Most patents are technical. You need a technical audience to evaluate them.
Were there any mirrors ?
If not, is it still possible to make some from stuff people have downloaded ?
Anyone in a country who couldn't get sued - set up a mirror !
This sounds like a great idea.
I wonder if anyone knows if anything like it is being done in Australia ? I've got a box or two at work we were just going to throw away.
I see your Minister for Reconcilliation has suddenly suffered from a case of "foot in mouth" disease then.
Not really. The media just likes making big deals out of very little. I'm surprised you heard about it. Although, with most ministers, it's best when something is in their mouth. Stops them saying anything else.
Of course, we must remember that Aborigines didn't have shoes to protect their feet and hence mouths, so are therefore inferior.
The fact that Australia has a "Reconcilliation Minister" at all is pretty embarrassing
Oh drat ... thats exactly what I was going to say!
Ha! And to top it off, I'm an Australian, and hence I didn't have to suffer with that 12 hour delay anyway.
That must mean I'm going to get the Nobel information in real time too
So does that mean it's going to be 12 hours late ?
No, I don't think NASA would do this. NASA is very careful about disturbing possible developing life. They are very careful to disinfect their probes lest microbes somehow survive the trip and colonize a far-away world. As impossible as it might sound, they are cautious about that. So I doubt NASA would send anything to a planet that might have the remote possibility of somehow containing developing life forms. Even if they just want to take a few shots.
The reason that they don't allow microbes on their probes is so that they don't get a false positive. It would be a pain if when they went looking for microbes on mars, they found some and they turned out to be not from mars at all, but brought with the craft from Earth.
Yes, NASA is careful about disinfecting, but only to help with the research. I don't think they're really that concerned about "contaminating" another planet with microbes.